Cash-book



(No Model.)

W. A. MADISON.

CASH BOOK.

No. 433,248. Patented July 29, 1890.

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UNITED STATES IVILLIAM A. MADISON,

CASH- OF CLEVELAND, OHIO.

BOOK.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 433,248, dated July 29, 1890.

Application filed June 24, 1889.

To all whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, \VILLIAM A. MADISON, a

' citizen of the United States, residing at Cleveland, in the county of Cuyahoga and State of Ohio, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Cash-Books in a System of Keeping Accounts; and I do hereby declare the following to bea full, clear, and exact description of the invention, such as will enable others skilled in the art to which it appertains to make and use the same.

My invention relates to a system of keeping accounts.

It consists of a cash-book, and is one of the means mentioned in my application No. 315,400 in which is described a system relating particularly to the collection, settlement, and entry of water-rents, and in which application an abstract-book forms the subject of the claim. As there described, the means employed are a peculiar form of bill and conpon, an assorting and distributing' case, an abstract-book and a cash-book. As there described, the bill is numbered, contains the announcement of the place, date, name of waterworks, statement of time covered, name of debtor, number and street and dwelling, amount due, signature of proper oificer, and the coupon to have a corresponding number, amount, name, dwelling, &c., printed on its face and back. Vhen payment is made, the fact is stamped on the bill and the coupon is torn off and assorted in the distributing-ease, properly numbered at the top and sides. From this distributing-case the coupons are taken daily and posted in the abstract-book and cash-book.

The cash-book forming the subject of this application is illustrated in the accompany- Serial No. 315,408. (No model.)

turned in for entry, all assorted, from the distributing-case.

Referring to the drawings, column A contains the dates; column B, the numbers corresponding to the numbers of the bills and coupons; column 0, the amount of cash paid. Columns D, E, F, G, H, I are a duplication of the same columns. By thus having the the cash payments are entered with great rapidity and Without the need of writing any words or letters except name of month at top of column A.

The expedition may be increased by the use of a numbering-machine. The headings and figures are all permanent, except the amounts entered from day to day. The numbers of coupons which,with the amounts, may be entered with a numbering-machine increase from lowest to highest, and this arrangement greatly adds to the rapidity of the whole operation, as above described.

hat I claim is- A cash-book for water rents, consisting of printed permanent headings in separate columus, composed, respectively, of the words Date, Number, Amount, in combination with parallel ruled columns under said headings, having therein under the columns of Date and N u mber permanently-pri nted numbers, increasing from the lowest to the highest numbers from top downward, whereby accounts of the character herein described are entered in figures only, substantially as described.

In testimony whereof I affix my signature in presence of two witnesses.

WILLIAM A. MADISON.

Witnesses:

C. M. TURNER, J. O. Rossrrnn.

' coupons numbered and previously assorted 

